VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A Setup Guide - Page 266

vSphere Installation and Setup Remove All Custom Packages on ESXi After adding custom packages, you might decide to remove them. Prerequisites Before you remove custom packages, shut down or migrate running virtual machines off of the ESXi host. Procedure 1 Reboot the ESXi host. 2 In the direct console, select Remove Custom Extensions and press F11 to confirm. 3 Reboot the host. All custom packages are removed. Disable Support for Non-ASCII Characters in Virtual Machine File and Directory Names By default, ESXi supports the use of non-ASCII characters for virtual machine file and directory names. You can disable this support by modifying the /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml file. After you disable this support, you can still enter non-ASCII characters for virtual machine names. vSphere user interfaces will display the virtual machine names in the non-ASCII characters, but ESXi will convert the actual file and directory names to ASCII strings. Procedure 1 Using a text editor, open the /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml file for the ESXi host. 2 Within the tag, add the following code. false 3 Save and close the file. 4 Reboot the host. Disable ESXi If you do not want your server to be an ESXi host, you can deactivate the ESXi setup. Procedure 1 Remove VMFS datastores on the internal disks so that the internal disks are no longer set up to store virtual machines. 2 Change the boot setting in the BIOS so that the host no longer boots into ESXi. 3 Install another operating system in its place. 266 VMware, Inc.